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However, the facts also provide a strong case for Jimmy Carter as having significant success in policies as president. These include senior appointments, first and foremost Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Carter assumed office as both ...
Appointing Paul Volcker was the top accomplishment of the Carter presidency, and the benefit of a more vigilant Fed continues to pay dividends.
Impressive Carter nominees also include Bank of America CEO A.W. Clausen to succeed Robert McNamara as president of the World Bank. With considerable fanfare, McNamara greatly increased development aid to very poor countries. With much less publicity, Clausen strengthened the Bank’s challenged balance sheet.
One of the most influential figures in U.S. history was the economist Milton Friedman, an advocate of free markets and deregulation, “neoliberalism” as it came to be known. His ideas became so central to policymaking that it is often said that the last half-century has been the Age of Friedman.
As may now be apparent, I disagree with my colleague Michael Sean Winters who wrote that James Earl Carter Jr. was a failed politician. It is a mistake to equate Carter's nonelection with being a political failure.
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In death, as in life, former President Jimmy Carter can't seem to get a fair shake, at least from the national political establishment based in Washington D.C. and the mainstream mass media. These include senior appointments,
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Praise for Carter's deployment of hot water solar panels ignores, among other things, his promotion of coal and synthetic fuels.